Press Dossier

IP2Innovate press dossier 4 April 2017

Digital innovation downturn as patent trolls invade Europe

Innovative companies in Europe are now under sustained attack from patent trolls’ abuse of Europe’s patent legal system. Patent trolls (patent assertion entities) make no products or services but buy up patents expressly to demand payments from successful companies. IP2Innovate is pressing the European Commission for a more robust, balanced and flexible legal system to protect Europe’s flourishing innovation sector. Europe’s innovation potential is threatened.